Pith Number

pith:MPT56WR2

pith:2016:MPT56WR23KJOQL2PUBM4FNJBUT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How to manipulate truthful prior-dependent mechanisms?

Pingzhong Tang, Yulong Zeng

arxiv:1606.02409 v2 · 2016-06-08 · cs.GT

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:10:47.355889Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

63e7df5a3ada92e82f4fa059c2b521a4ce3d40a3755ecf6228ce3cbaa470e8c8

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.02409 · arxiv_version: 1606.02409v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.02409 · pith_short_12: MPT56WR23KJO · pith_short_16: MPT56WR23KJOQL2P · pith_short_8: MPT56WR2

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MPT56WR23KJOQL2PUBM4FNJBUT \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 63e7df5a3ada92e82f4fa059c2b521a4ce3d40a3755ecf6228ce3cbaa470e8c8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d5a851ef2af99d8e2ba6a28063b33552966ebc83bc6afe4a275c8b747dd398a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-08T05:59:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a7b8f27ff6fa7fe6c26b36fae930a57359936ee34d086522595f9f8a3992bde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.02409",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}